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Meijer.com INTRODUCTION Thank You for Choosing a Q-See Product! All of our products are backed by a conditional service warranty covering all hardware for 12 months from the date of purchase. Additionally, our products also come with a free exchange policy that covers all manufacturing defects for one month from the date of purchase. Permanent upgrading service is provided for the software and is available at www.Q-See.com.
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 6 Software 6 Hardware 6 Internet Connection Speeds 6 Compatible Network Security Systems 6 2. GETTING STARTED 5.1 Playback File Search Video Playback Picture Playback 34 35 37 38 5.2 Backup Backing up by Event Backing up by Time 39 39 39 7 TROUBLESHOOTING 40 2.1 Installing CMS Uninstalling CMS 7 8 IP TOOL 41 2.2 Logging in 9 QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? CONTACT US 42 2.3 Control Center Operation Interface 10 2.
Meijer.com SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS CHAPTER 1 GETTING STARTED SOFTWARE 2.1 INSTALLING CMS The table below lists the versions of the Windows operating system that are compatible with CMS along with any updates and which version of DirectX you will need to be running. CMS can be installed by clicking on the Install CMS Software button on the CD included with your DVR, or by clicking on the file Setup.exe in the CMS folder. Operating System Comments Windows XP SP2 or later DirectX 9.
Meijer.com You will be asked where you want the program to add its icons. Select a specific location if desired. Click on Next to proceed. 2.2 LOGGING IN To launch CMS, double click on the CMS icon on your computer desktop, or select it from the program menu available by clicking on the Windows icon at the lower left corner of your computer screen. When you first launch the program, it will ask you to create a password. You cannot change the field labelled “System.
Meijer.com 2.3 CONTROL CENTER OPERATION INTERFACE 2 3 Item Name Description 1 Device List Shows the connected DVRs and available cameras. This can be switched to show groups of specific channels by clicking on the Channel Group tab at the bottom. 2 Lock/Unlock 7 Locks the current configuration. When locked, one must enter the user name and password to make any changes. 3 Minimize/Maximize Minimize or maximize the Control Center’s window.
Meijer.com 2.4 BASIC CONFIGURATION You will need to access your DVRs through CMS in order to monitor them. STEP 4. Once you have set up your region, you can add one or more DVRs or IP cameras to it by clicking on the Add Device icon. STEP 1. Click on the System Config button at the lower right of the Control Center Operation Interface. This will change the screen to the Device Manager window which will allow you to begin to add one or more DVRs to your system.
Meijer.com STEP 5. To view your DVRs, click on the Live button at the lower right of the Operation Interface. STEP 1. Click on the Add Group icon STEP 2. Enter the name of your group and click OK. STEP 3. With the channel group’s icon highlighted, click on an available camera in the Device List and then press the >> button in the middle to add that camera to the group. STEP 6. You will see your connected devices listed to the left of the viewing window.
Meijer.com MONITORING USING CMS CHAPTER 3 LIVE VIEWING Once you have added your DVR(s) to the Device Manager, you can view the cameras attached to those systems in the Control Center Operation Interface. Clicking on a camera in the multi-channel view so that it has a red outline and then clicking on the 1-channel display mode button will cause the Preview Window to only display that channel. You can also double click on a screen to bring it to single camera view.
Meijer.com PAN-TILT-ZOOM (P.T.Z.) CAMERA OPERATION SNAPSHOT You can take up to 10 still frames from a single camera by pressing the Snapshot button. Click on any channel in the on-screen Preview Window to chose it. The chosen camera will have a red outline. If you have a PTZ camera connected to a system you are monitoring, you can control it using the interface on the right side of the Control Center Operation Interface.
Meijer.com SYSTEM CONFIGURATION CHAPTER 4 In addition to adding DVRs to CMS as covered in Chapter 2, System Configuration gives you access to configure how your computer uses and saves video, manage who has access to CMS, as well as adding or removing monitored systems. Enter the System Configuration mode by clicking on the System Config button at the lower right of your screen. 4.2 LOCAL CONFIGURATION This area allows you to change how CMS interacts with the computer you are using.
Meijer.com Record Configuration LOCAL SCHEDULE CONFIGURATION This allows you to determine where your video will be recorded on your computer system. CMS will detect attached drives which you may select or deselect for use. You may select multiple partitions to record video and the system will seemlessly utilize the partitions for recording and playback. The Recycle Record feature allows you to write over old files. If this is not selected, CMS will stop recording when it has filled the drives.
Meijer.com STEP 1. Select a camera from those available on the left. Holiday Schedule STEP 2. Select the pencil tool and click on the time you want to start recording on the day you wish to schedule. Click and drag to set the recording period. A yellow-green box will appear to the left to indicate the start and end times you are selecting. Scheduled areas will appear in blue and you can add onto an existing block of time.
Meijer.com LOCAL ALARM CONFIGURATION Sensors Like Local Schedule Configuration, above, this Local Alarm Configuration allows you to record events directly onto your computer regardless of what the settings are on the actual DVR. However, this tab will cause the system to record only when motion is detected or when video loss occurs. CMS can also monitor sensors connected to the DVR and they can be set to trigger alarms or cause cameras to record in the same way cameras can trigger actions.
Meijer.com 4.4 E-MAP INTERFACE ADDING MAPS Users have the option to add a map showing the locations of the cameras being monitored in order to quickly show the location of an alarm event. The maps can be a floorplan of a single building or they can show the location of DVRs within a city. The map display size is 1100 pixels by 1100 pixels and the maps themselves must be created in a graphic program such as Painter, Photoshop or GIMP and saved in the .BMP or .
Meijer.com MAP CONFIGURATION You must have Map Config selected in addition to the map you want to configure. Click and drag cameras from those available on the left side of the screen to their approximate locations on the map. IMPORTANT! Cameras can not be placed on more than one map. If you selected the check box “E-Map” in the Local Alarm Configuration tab, that camera’s icon will begin blinking on the map when it detects motion.
Meijer.com Setting User Access 4.6 LOG INQUIRY When a new user account is created, it will have specific privileges assigned automatically. These include access to specific functions on connected DVRs such as the ability to view cameras, control the PTZ and play back or back up video from the DVRs. CMS keeps a log of all events occurring in the system, including alarm events and user activities. This log can be searched by date, time and channel.
Meijer.com VIDEO SEARCH CHAPTER 5 Next to live remote viewing, the most important feature of CMS is the ability to search and play back recorded video of events. Playback - along with backing up important video records for use elsewhere - is handled within the Video Search area. FILE SEARCH To search files recorded onto your computer’s hard drive, select the Local Playback tab and set the parameters of your search - type of record, the date of the event, and the channels you want to review.
Meijer.com Selecting files for playback VIDEO PLAYBACK Once you have clicked the Search button, a streaming bar will appear above the Preview Window to show that the search is progressing. If there are video records that meet your criteria, you will see the time periods that the videos were recorded appear as yellow blocks of time in the Playback Timeline at the bottom of the Control Center window.
Meijer.com PICTURE PLAYBACK 5.2 BACKUP If you have an IP (Internet Protocol) camera connected to your network which is being monitored by CMS, you can view still images saved to the SD card within the camera. Clicking on the Backup icon on the far right of the Video Search window will change the interface to support backing up files from your computer or from monitored DVR systems to a connected hard drive of your choice.
Meijer.com TROUBLESHOOTING APPENDIX 1 If instead of seeing video images in Live View once you have added systems to CMS or, if the camera images flash then it is likely that the computer’s video card’s VGA driver is not current or does not have full DirectX support. To resolve this issue in Windows 2003 Server, 2007, XP or Vista click on the on the Windows Start button at the lower left of the computer screen. Enter “dxdiag” into the run column and press Enter.
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